Interlink World Fiction

The best way to learn about people and places far away.

This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but were not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

"Interlink World Fiction is now the most important collection of Arabic literature in translation in the English-speaking world." --Robert J. Sullivan, professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Metamorphoses, a journal of translation

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Lake Beyond the Wind, AYahya Yakhlif; translated by M. Jayyusi and C. TingleyThe year is 1948; the place, Samakh, a small town on Lake Tiberias, north of Jerusalem. People in Samakh are waiting — for what, exactly, they do not yet know. The whistle of the Haifa-Deraa train doesn't sound anymore. Abd al-Karim, the sh...$12.95

For young Tomas, nothing in Istanbul is certain, except for the lamppost that he touches every day for luck on his way to school. World W...$15.00

Landscape with Dogand Other StoriesErsi Sotiropoulos; translated by Karen Emmerich“Let’s just say that Giacometti was setting out to draw a face. If he started with the chin, he would worry that he might never reach the nose. The longer he sketched the face, the harder he tried to offer a faithful representation of it,...$15.00

Learning EnglishRachid al-Daif; translated by Paula Haydar and Adnan HaydarNo matter how hard Rachid tries to recreate himself, to become educated and worldly—to “learn English”—it is impossible for this hip Beiruti with his cell phone and high-speed internet to sever the connection to his past in th...$12.95

Living, Loving and Lying Awake at NightSindiwe MagonaSindiwe Magona’s long awaited collection of superb short stories brings a full range of South African women’s experience brilliantly to light. From the village mother leaving her children to work; the maid in service to the white medem; t...$12.95

Lusaka Punk and Other StoriesThe Caine Prize for African Writing 2015edited by the Caine Prize Committee and Chris BrazierTHE LEADING AFRICAN LITERARY AWARD, KNOWN AS THE AFRICAN BOOKER, NAMED AFTER THE BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDER, MICHAEL CAINE

Now entering its sixteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize, and is awarde...$16.95

“Did I live many lives or only one life enough for many women?” asks Myriam in Other Lives. This third novel by Lebanese writer, Iman Humaydan, starkly and poi...$15.00

Pillars of SaltFadia FaqirPillars of Salt is the story of two women confined in a mental hospital in Jordan during and after the British Mandate. Maha, a peasant woman from the Jordan Valley, and Um Saad from Amman find themselves sharing a room. After initial tensio...$15.00

In the wake of resettlement from the desert to the hills overlooking Jerusalem, aging Bedouin patriarch Mannan wants his son Muhammad al-Asghar (the Youngest) to take on leader...$15.00

Printed in BeirutJabbour Douaihy; translated by Paula HaydarA DAZZLING MYSTERY SET IN THE WORLD OF LEBANON’S BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

Farid Abou Cha’r arrives in Beirut on a hot summer morning with his manuscript, looking for a publisher. He is turned down by all of them—“nobody re...$15.00

Qadi & the Fortune Teller, TheNabil SalehA leather-bound manuscript is found hidden in a wall of a house in the rubble of Beirut in the late 1970s. It is the diary of a Muslim judge in Ottoman Beirut during 1843-a critical time for the Ottoman Empire and the European powers. The judge is Sh...$13.95

THE LEADING AFRICAN LITERARY AWARD, KNOWN AS THE AFRICAN BOOKER, NAMED AFTER THE BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDER, MICHAEL CAINE

Now entering its nineteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awa...$16.95

Rien ne va PlusMargarita Karapanou; translated by Karen EmmerichThe story is simple: a love affair ends badly. A woman and a man marry, then cruelty, infidelity, and divorce. But this novel tells their story twice, from opposing perspectives. Our sympathies are inverted; we don’t know whom to trust; the dis...$15.00

A Road to Damascus is a captivating thriller that reveals a nation’s deepest fears, a family’s intergenerational secrets, and an underworld of politics, religion,...$20.00

SabriyaDamascus Bitter SweetUlfat Idilbi; translated by Peter ClarkSabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness during her painful life. The national revolt is cr...$15.00